White Squall (1996)
MATURE THEMES, LOW LEVEL VIOLENCE
| Director: | Ridley Scott |
| Actors: | Jeremy Sisto, Jeff Bridges, John Savage, Jason Marsden, Ryan Phillippe, Caroline Goodall, David Selby, Scott Wolf, David Lascher, Eric Michael Cole |
The strongest force in nature is the will to survive.
Directed by Ridley Scott, White Squall is based on the true story of a group of students in their senior year who, in 1960, sign up to crew a sailing ship on a voyage from the Caribbean to the South Pacific and back. Under the command of skipper Christopher Sheldon (Jeff Bridges), the teenage crew is joined by Sheldon's wife, Alice (Caroline Goodall), acting as the ship's doctor and science teacher, McCrea (John Savage), an English teacher and a Cuban cook (Julio Oscar Mechoso).
The eight-month, 12, 000-mile journey becomes an adventure of unexpected proportions that begins with a tense encounter with a Cuban gunship on the eve of the Bay of Pigs invasion and ends, tragically for some, when the Albatross runs into the titular white squall (brilliantly staged and shot), an almost mythical wind-and-lightning storm of intense fury.
| Status: | Normal |
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| Run time: | 128mins |
| Origin: | UNITED STATES |
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Member Reviews (6)
6 Member
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Jack
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Ridley Scott has directed some very good films (Blade Runner, Matchstick Men, Thelma and Louise, Alien) but WS is NOT one of them. It’s filled with banal dialogue as when crotchety “Skipper” (Jeff Bridges) sagely declares to his inexperienced hunky schoolboy crew, “You know what's out there? Wind and rain, and some damn big waves, reefs and rocks, sandbars, and enough fog and night to hide it all.” Camera work aboard the “Albatross” in port or at sea is excellent but the story is heavy-handed, unoriginal and the clichéd characters poorly developed, none worse than the domineering wealthy father and his wimpy wife checking up on their seafaring son. After that scene the as yet unseen white squall became a black screen—I went to bed!
Jim C.
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quite good enjoyed
Barbara S.
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Robert W.
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Mona Kelada
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Debbie Bornman
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Eery moving storyline.